On May 30, the sun will set over Forest Park, and a new world—that of Hamlet, reimagined—will take over Shakespeare Glen.

A tornado tore down part of the stage, but the festival rebuilt and is ready to stage Shakespeare's most well known work.

All the action on stage kicks off Wednesday, May 28, when the festival opens with “Penelope,” a musical comedy set in the ...

Basically, Hamlet and Ophelia are “variables” to which numerical values get assigned. The nouns “Lord” and “King” each have a ...

Tom Stoppard's play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” a classic in the contemporary theater world, is described on ...

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The MCU has introduced a lot of amazing characters since the release of Avengers: Endgame, but these are the very best.

I am continuously mesmerised by theatre-makers’ abilities to deliver fresh and novel adaptations of Shakespeare plays. This feminist, gender-swapping retelling of HAMLET is such an adaptation. It is ...

Akerley taps into the universality of the characters’ mourning. “This is the poison,” Claudius utters, “of deep grief.” It’s far from “Hamlet’s” most celebrated line, but it’s ...

McEleney has directed “Hamlet” almost as if it was a film noir, well, maybe a stage noir, in which the main character is an everyman trapped in the undertow of a tragedy he cannot escape.

McEleney has directed “Hamlet” almost as if it was a film noir, well, maybe a stage noir, in which the main character is an everyman trapped in the undertow of a tragedy he cannot escape. In trying to ...